The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-29

It is reported that the government is
about to inaugurate system of prosecu-
tions, civil and criminal, against the tie
cutters who have been supplying the
! Cascade division of the Northern Pacific.
In Belfast last Saturday night mob
wrecked an inn and pelted the police
with stones. The police were reinforced
and order was restored. Several league
meetings in Glare to-day we're dispersed
by the police without resistance.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt
in Santiago de Cuba last week, the vibra-
tions lasting half minute. Two persons
were injured and some houses damaged
Shocks were also felt in Quatanamo and
Manzillo, and in Kingston, Jamaica.
The decision in the Sharpe case at
New York, has been affirmed by the gen.
eral term, all four of the judges concur
ring. The case can now be appealed to
the court of appeals, but Jake Sharpe
will be sent to Sing Sing Immediately.
The trial of VIM. O'Brien, under the
coercion act, was concluded at Mitchell
town last Saturday. The accused was
declared guilty and sentenced to three
months imprisonment. Notice of appeal
from the judgment of the court was
given.
A telegram from Santa Fe, New Nex-
leo to the associated press, says: The re-
ported Apache outbreak in Arizona is not
confirmed at the military headquarters
here. On the contrary, everything is re-
ported quiet on the southwestern Indian
reservations
The steamship Alesia, which reached
New York Thursday from Marseilles and
Naples, with six hundred passengers, had
Aiatic cholera aboard. Eight of her pas
sengers died, and on her arrival at quar-
antine, the health officer found four
cases aboard. She is consigned to James
x. ElweH & Co.
Two hundred negroes are under arms
in Metagorda county, Texas. and the
sheriffs of Metagorda and Sticky coun-
ties are moving on them with large
posses OF white men. The Houston
Light Guards have received orders to
leave on special train for the scene. The
uprising Of the negroes had its origin in
the murder of negro constable who had
a warrant for the arrest of white man.
In the United States court, in Boston.
a decision was rendered Monday morn
ing sustaining the demurrer of the Bell
telephone company against the govern
ment suit, and the case was dismissed.
Judge Colt states that the main purpose
Of the bill was to cancel two patents
granted to Bell, relating to the act of
transmitting speech by electricity, on the
ground that they were obtained by fraud.
Atfidavits were recently fled in San
Francisco by the foreman of the grand
jury in an application for warrant to
search house in the Chinese quarter for
certain documents, in which it was set
forth that it was the belief of the de-
ponent that the papers would show that
Christopher Buckley, a well-known po-
litical leader Of the city, had entered into
an agreement with the Chinese to secure
to secure the acquittal of one of their
countrymen by bribing the jury. The
warrant was issued and the papers have
been secured.
The statement is made in San Fran
cisco that John D. Spreckles, president
of the Oceanic steamship company. hes
made an agreement with the Achison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, providing for
through express from San Diego to New
York. The train is to carry passengers
and mail through with but few stops, and
the Oceanic company's steamers, if
pushed, will cross the Pacific from San
Diego to Sydney, stopping at Auckland,
in seventeen or eighteen days. The total
time from Sydney to Liverpool will thus
be reduced to twenty-eight days.